What size socket for spindle nut?
Jul 19, 2004 | 02:39 PM
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What size socket for spindle nut?
Nothing like going to change your rear wheels bearing, only to find out you don't have socket big enough.
Jul 19, 2004 | 02:41 PM
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36mm, rentable from Autozone.
Jul 19, 2004 | 04:28 PM
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hell, they only cost 6.99 to buy...
Jul 19, 2004 | 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by bogus
hell, they only cost 6.99 to buy...
I try to stay away from K-Mart tools
Jul 19, 2004 | 05:40 PM
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I try to stay away from K-Mart tools
Yeah seriously. Not something I'd want to use on a nut calling for 164-200 FT/LB.
Jul 19, 2004 | 07:04 PM
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that's the price at autozone for one... It may have been more, but I don't remember for sure. It did'nt break on me, and it has a lifetime warrantee on it.
Jul 19, 2004 | 08:25 PM
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hell, they only cost 6.99 to buy...
36mm Socket
Jul 19, 2004 | 08:55 PM
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12$ for mine.
Ohh yeah, do you have a 1/2" breaker bar?
Better be a big one...
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Jul 19, 2004 | 09:03 PM
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Yeah seriously. Not something I'd want to use on a nut calling for 164-200 FT/LB.
So you get a two foot breaker bar and put 100 lbs on the end. VIOLA! 200 ft lbs.
Don't forget to
not back off the nut while trying to locate the cotter key!
Jul 19, 2004 | 09:05 PM
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So you get a two foot breaker bar and put 100 lbs on the end. VIOLA! 200 ft lbs.
Huh? Where'd that come from?
Jul 19, 2004 | 09:10 PM
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Huh? Where'd that come from?
Mike's Hard Lemonade! Made sense to me.....
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Jul 19, 2004 | 10:18 PM
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That same socket can be put in a small plastic bag and in the tailshaft of the transmission whenever you remove the driveline for any reason. Keeps the trans fluid in.